I'm been taken alot of coon off one property and about half a dozen do not have tails. Seen before in previous seasons. But it was rare. Anyone else seen That? Wonder why.

I believe someone preciously posted in could be caused by a virus. I had a couple like that also.

Hum. I figured at first it was maybe from nursing and competing with other siblings in liter. But than when you a multiple makes you kindof think otherwise.

The tail eating virus-sort of like the flesh eating virus.

Here's a 3X boar from a few years ago-

Every coon I’ve caught that was tailless was a big boar coon

Some redneck has the tails tied to his truck antenna.

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And these guys are vulnerable during mating

I catch several every year. They are always big boars, caught clear out in sandhill pastures in coyote sets.

The only explanation I've been able to believe is that the tails are damaged or torn off by rival boars pulling them from the females. I have caught a lot of boar coon with freshly docked or severely damaged tails during their rut in mid to late January.... as well as many healed over ones throughout the season.

So you seen me out running around in my decked out truck . coon tails are the red neck way of bedazzling stuff

It's them dang big foot. It happens every year when the Vikings, Eagles and Steelers don't get into the Super Bowl and they get bored, so they just start tossing them coons around.

Every tailless 'coon I've caught has been a big boar.

I caught 2 last week both 3x one completely no tail , the other a one inch stub . Had me wondering if it was a hereditary thing . Fresh bite marks on center of back on both, do you think that is from mating or fighting another male ?

Heard sometimes the mother bits them off when they are small right after birth.

Same as the tail, this is why the big boars have all that grissly scar tissue on the back of the neck, other boar coons trying to pull them off the females during mating.

Bobtail boar coon are so common they are the norm.

Should I attempt to sell a bobtail or docked tail or even no tail?

This^^ His running buddy decided it was his turn and bites off his tail. Sows loose theirs very rarely but they do. It is very common in the late season and if it is freshly bobbed, in this market I would not bother bringing it home. It's neck and rump will look like it got in a fight with a roll of barb wire. LLL